On Monday 15 June 2009 00:31:26 Luke771 wrote: > Cl?ment wrote: > > On Sunday 14 June 2009 00:16:45 Matthew Toseland wrote: > >> Does the new windows installer set up Freenet to use the correct > >> language? Obviously it asks you, but after that does the node use the > >> correct language? And does it pick up the system locale in the first > >> place? IIRC the language selection isn't very obvious? > > > > Maybe the user wasn't refering to freenet itself, but to the website. > > > > Imo, we need a translated website in all suported language, because a > > user who don't speak english won't know how to install it. > > Agreed. > Theoretically, that is. > In practice, we have one translator per language. and translating the > website + wiki + keeping the translations updated would be a lot of work. >
Well, at a start, we could translate the download instructions and the what is freenet page. It's not very large, and it's the more useful. > Maybe, we could encourage the creation of local freenet communties that > are 'federated' with the project and authorized to use its name > (freenetproject.de, freenetproject.uk (for British spelling :P ), > freenetproject.fr, and so forth). > Such communities could keep their own localized howtos and (most > important) support forums in their own languages. > That would be a good thing, but it would be quite hard to do as you mention. And I'm not sure Freenet has enough users right now to do that. > B U T > > While getting started such communities started may be relatively easy in > Germany and most of all in France where Freenet use is fairly popular > evn in local languages, in other places, e.g. Spanish-speaking > countries, but also Italy, Greece, etc, the use of Freenet is limited to > users who do know English, for the very simple reason that there is > little of no content in non-Engish languages other than French and German. > > Therefore, the first thing to do would be to try and get bilingual (and > multilingual) users NOT to stick with English because it's the mnost > widely known, but do the exact opposite: insert more content in other > languages, just *because* English is most popuylar (someone will insert > English content anyway) > Agreed. Afaik, there was a french site at the time of the 0.5, but it never reached the sufficient amount of users. We also had a french freenet forum, but it disappeared (lack of user too afaics). > Once Spanish, Italian, and Bangladeshi content is available, a whole lot > of users from Spain and Soputh America, Italy and Bangladesh who only > know that little bit of English that is necessary to get Freenet up and > running, would access content in their own languages and *start > insterting more* content in that language because that's the kind of > content they use. That would be ideal yes. > In other words (and shorter) it's about bootstrapping. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
